Hard Drive Recovery

Soon I will place a post here with the whole proces of trying to recover a hard drive which is failing.

I have used 2 drives in a HP Microserver, 2*2TB, I have mapped these drives in ESXi as Raw Device Mappings.

In Windows I created 1 volume of these RAW Device mappings.. you can guess… 1 of these drives is defective, resulting in failure of the total volume.

To bad… well, do I have important data on it? Well, not the most important stuff, but it is always a pain when a drive fails. December 2016, I bought a new NAS and wanted to decomission the HP Microserver and migrate all the data to the new NAS, I already had the Nas in my home, but did not got the chance to Migrate the data to it. The drive was broken already.

As I got used to the fact I lost all the data, I thought, well OKAY, maybe it is a nice project to give it a shot to recover the drive! So I began…

Searching for information about hard drive recovery. At this point I have the tool for succesfully remove the heads from the platters. So I can go on with my project now!
I have 1 donor drive
I have several drives to first test with.
I have the tool(!)
Next things I am going to do is built a DIY Clean Air Box in which I am going to perform the Head Swap!

So stay tuned! I will come back soon with more information and ofcourse, lot’s of pictures!

[Update 09-09-2017]
I am currently busy with a DIY Cleanbox, while this is not recommended for serious business, I want to give it a try!